When news broke that Amazon was buying Twitch, a videogame-themed online streaming site, for nearly $1 billion, the most striking thing in all the media reports—at least to me—was the sheer number of people who will willingly watch other people play
The group recruited popular Twitch streamers/YouTubers like Sky Williams, MaxMoeFoe (above) and Mia Rose to write “Lizard Squad” on their forehead, and tweet them a picture. When enough of these streamers obliged, they relented their attacks on the
UPDATE (4:02pm): It's official: Amazon has purchased Twitch, following months of rumors that Google was looking to buy the video streaming company. Amazon says the exact purchase price will be $970 million in cash.
UPDATE (4:02pm): It's official: Amazon has purchased Twitch, following months of rumors that Google was looking to buy the video streaming company. Amazon says the exact purchase price will be $970 million in cash.
Google and Yahoo both offered to buy Twitch before Amazon made the winning $970 million all-cash offer. But both of their talks blew up for "different reasons," a source tells Business Insider, declining to elaborate on what